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SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 12/29/2009 : 05:24:18
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Great gobs o' goose grease, the Obamas didn't go to church on Xmas! Oh, the shame; the disgrace! God is really pissed! 
At least that's what we might expect to hear when the teabaggers and their ilk find out about it. Of course, according to them, God is always pissed about something or other, anyway. 
No Churchgoing Christmas for the First Family
By Amy Sullivan / Washington Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009
The Senate vote on final passage of health reform almost scuttled their plans, but it looks like the First Family will still make it to Hawaii for Christmas. They've had a whirlwind holiday season so far, starting with the lighting of the National Christmas Tree, through hosting more than 50,000 people for 27 parties and open houses, and ending with a visit by the First Lady, Malia and Sasha, and the family's dog Bo, to deliver cookies to the Children's National Medical Center. The Obamas have also started their own holiday traditions in their new home, adding a Christmas wishing tree to the decorations festooning the White House.
But there's one common Christmas practice not on the First Family's schedule: a visit to Christmas Eve church services.
(See TIME's photo-essay "Christmas Arrives at the Obama White House.")
Church, in fact, has been a surprisingly tough issue for the Obamas. They resigned their membership with Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago in 2008 after Obama renounced the church's controversial former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. And while the First Family intended to find a local church to attend when they moved to Washington, concerns about crowds and displacing regular worshippers has prevented them from finding a new religious home during their first year here.
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"Religious home...." One might wonder about the somewhat casual attitude Obama has shown to church. It really doesn't seem to be all that high a priority with him, and I'm a little surprised we haven't heard a lot of piteous whinging from the Religious Right and the equally imbicilic Freepers about it. But I'm sure we will soon, as I found the article on the Drudge Report. 
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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It's the end of Christiandom as we know it!
